Re: Eiffel.

2006-04-11 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Katipo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > What's the general consensus on this? > http://www.eiffel.com/general/news/2006/2006_04_05_pr.html The press release ought to have been clearer. It took me about a dozen clicks from their press release to discover that the unspecified "Open source license" t

Re: Reforming the NM process

2006-04-11 Thread Benjamin Mesing
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Re: Reforming the NM process

2006-04-11 Thread Rudi Cilibrasi
Dear Marc and fellow Debian friends, Thanks for this cogent and clear summary of the problem as you see it. It reminds me a bit of the problem of scientific peer-review; for-pay journals often ask people to donate their limitted time reviewing other people's work. Although the journal profits, t

Re: Reforming the NM process

2006-04-11 Thread Benjamin Mesing
Hello, my comments as someone planning to enter NM during the next couple of month follow. Overall I find your analysis enlightening. I agree with those points I do not discuss here. > 1.2.1 Add more people [Marc argues that this is not a long solution] I disagree here up to a certain point. I

Re: Reforming the NM process

2006-04-11 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 06:40:34PM +0200, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > >> 2.1 Multiple advocates >> -- >> > > >> Ask for more than one advocate (at the moment, I'm thinking about >> two). This should get the number of people advocated with a

Re: Reforming the NM process

2006-04-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 06:40:34PM +0200, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > 2.1 Multiple advocates > -- > Ask for more than one advocate (at the moment, I'm thinking about > two). This should get the number of people advocated with a "Errr, > I met him, he seemed nice" down. At t

Re: Debian Light Desktop - meta package

2006-04-11 Thread David Nusinow
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 01:44:57PM -0300, Andr? Luiz Rodrigues Ferreira wrote: > Hi ! > > I'm creating a meta package for install a lite desktop for old > machines with poor hardware. > I would like to receive opinions about my packages list: > > - x-window-system-core Note that this metapackage

Is Thorsten Sauter MIA?

2006-04-11 Thread Cameron Dale
I've been trying to reach Thorsten Sauter for some time now. I've sent him a couple emails over the last month and have heard nothing back. I was recently involved in an NMU of libphp-adodb, which he maintains and was 6 months out of date and had serveral security problems. There was even a backpor

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-11 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 01:10:39AM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to upload a new mailman package, but this is failing > utterly. Could someone please help me? Thanks in advance. > > I'm uploading the exact packages at > http://people.debian.org/~lmamane/mailman/ with "dput

Upload getting lost

2006-04-11 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
Hi, I'm trying to upload a new mailman package, but this is failing utterly. Could someone please help me? Thanks in advance. I'm uploading the exact packages at http://people.debian.org/~lmamane/mailman/ with "dput" to the anonymous queue on ftp-master. The upload goes well, I see them if I ftp

Re: Debian Light Desktop - meta package

2006-04-11 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Andr Luiz Rodrigues Ferreira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060411 18:45]: > - x-window-system-core > - xfce4 (beautiful!) > - gdm [...] > - gnome-ppp > - gnome-utils Definitions differ, but I'd not call something "light" pulling in half of gnome. What about "Debian Light Gnome Desktop"? Hochachtungsvoll

Re: Bug#356916: GFDL/non-free procedure

2006-04-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 01:53:29PM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote: > I am moving out the GFDL documentation from the texinfo package and want > to ask whether the following procedure is the right way to do it: > Current status: > source package: texinfo > orig file: texinfo_4.8.or

Re: Eiffel.

2006-04-11 Thread Kari Pahula
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 06:29:44PM +0800, Katipo wrote: > Hello, > > What's the general consensus on this? If Eiffel Studio is under GPL, then it can be included in Debian. There isn't really much else to it, as far as Debian is concerned. There is already an ITP on it: http://bugs.debian.org/36

Re: GFDL/non-free procedure

2006-04-11 Thread Jérôme Marant
Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dear all! > > I am moving out the GFDL documentation from the texinfo package and want > to ask whether the following procedure is the right way to do it: > > Current status: > source package: texinfo > orig file: texinfo_4.8.orig.tar

maintainer packages and bugs (and karma)

2006-04-11 Thread Gürkan Sengün
Hello Just wanted to show you what I did in a few hours. Any comments or wishes for extensions/changes are welcome. Preferably with patches. http://io.debian.net/~tar/bugstats/ Cheers, Gürkan btw, this runs on debian gnu/kfreebsd. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

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Re: Eiffel.

2006-04-11 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 06:29:44PM +0800, Katipo wrote: > Hello, > > What's the general consensus on this? > > http://www.eiffel.com/general/news/2006/2006_04_05_pr.html > > A good move? > Or dangerous? > Regards, There's nothing wrong with that -- MySQL does the very same thing, and has been d

Eiffel.

2006-04-11 Thread Katipo
Hello, What's the general consensus on this? http://www.eiffel.com/general/news/2006/2006_04_05_pr.html A good move? Or dangerous? Regards, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian Light Desktop - meta package

2006-04-11 Thread Daniel Dickinson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 13:44:57 -0300 "André Luiz Rodrigues Ferreira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi ! > > I'm creating a meta package for install a lite desktop for old > machines with poor hardware. That's an admiral goal, however I would be prepare

Re: Debian Light Desktop - meta package

2006-04-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 13:44 -0300, André Luiz Rodrigues Ferreira wrote: > Hi ! > > I'm creating a meta package for install a lite desktop for old > machines with poor hardware. > I would like to receive opinions about my packages list: > > - x-window-system-core > - xfce4 (beautiful!) > - gdm > -

Re: Bug#361418: [Proposal] new Debian menu structure

2006-04-11 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 01:56:50AM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include > * Bill Allombert [Tue, Apr 11 2006, 12:34:45AM]: > > Yep. WRT you said above, what abot renaming "WindowManagers/Modules" to > "$wm Modules" (one level above WM starters and indicating which > "modules" are meant by that).

Re: Reforming the NM process

2006-04-11 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le Mar 11 Avril 2006 18:40, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt a écrit : > I'd like to implement the proposals I made in (2.1) and (2.2) as fast > as possible, especially applying the rules in (2.2) to people already > in the queue waiting for an AM. I agree both points are a good thing, and should be impleme

Re: Debian Light Desktop - meta package

2006-04-11 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 13:44 -0300, André Luiz Rodrigues Ferreira wrote: > Hi ! > > I'm creating a meta package for install a lite desktop for old > machines with poor hardware. Great task. > I would like to receive opinions about my packages list: > > - x-window-system-core > - xfce4 (beautiful!

Debian Light Desktop - meta package

2006-04-11 Thread André Luiz Rodrigues Ferreira
Hi ! I'm creating a meta package for install a lite desktop for old machines with poor hardware. I would like to receive opinions about my packages list: - x-window-system-core - xfce4 (beautiful!) - gdm - gftp - mozilla-firefox - mozilla-thunderbird - menu - gcalctool (or xcalc) - evince - eog -

Re: glibc_2.3.6-6_i386.changes REJECTED

2006-04-11 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le Mar 11 Avril 2006 15:08, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : > > right, but that makes a nasty circular dependency I thought we > > should avoid at any rate ? Shouldn't libc-bin rather conflicts with > > bad version of the libc ? > I think that circle is unavoidable. right, I forgot about the

Re: glibc_2.3.6-6_i386.changes REJECTED

2006-04-11 Thread Andreas Barth
* Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060411 15:27]: > On Tuesday 11 April 2006 15:08, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > When doing a full upgrade (stable->unstable) could it happen that apt > > breaks the libc6<->libc-bin depends cycle and put them into seperate > > dpkg calls? I don't remember how smart

Re: glibc_2.3.6-6_i386.changes REJECTED

2006-04-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 15:08, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > When doing a full upgrade (stable->unstable) could it happen that apt > breaks the libc6<->libc-bin depends cycle and put them into seperate > dpkg calls? I don't remember how smart/stupid libapt was there. It > might be best to add "apt

Re: glibc_2.3.6-6_i386.changes REJECTED

2006-04-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Le Mar 11 Avril 2006 11:05, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : >> I'm assuming libc6 depends on libc-bin and libc-bin depends on libc6 >> here. The former is needed to always pull in libc-bin on upgrades and >> the later is needed to ensure the minimum ve

Re: glibc_2.3.6-6_i386.changes REJECTED

2006-04-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 11:51:26AM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: >> Le Mar 11 Avril 2006 11:05, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : > >> > I'm assuming libc6 depends on libc-bin and libc-bin depends on libc6 >> > here. The former is needed to always pull in

Re: glibc_2.3.6-6_i386.changes REJECTED

2006-04-11 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le Mar 11 Avril 2006 12:09, Steve Langasek a écrit : > On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 11:51:26AM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > Le Mar 11 Avril 2006 11:05, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : > > > I'm assuming libc6 depends on libc-bin and libc-bin depends on > > > libc6 here. The former is needed to alway

Bug#361954: ITP: OSSEC HIDS -- Host-based intrusion detection system.

2006-04-11 Thread Alberto Furia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alberto Furia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: ossec-hids Version : 0.7 Upstream Author : Daniel B. Cid * URL : http://www.ossec.net/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : Host-based intrusion detec

GFDL/non-free procedure

2006-04-11 Thread Norbert Preining
Dear all! I am moving out the GFDL documentation from the texinfo package and want to ask whether the following procedure is the right way to do it: Current status: source package: texinfo orig file: texinfo_4.8.orig.tar.gz binary packages:texinfo_4.8-8, info_4.8-8 N

Re: glibc_2.3.6-6_i386.changes REJECTED

2006-04-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 11:51:26AM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > Le Mar 11 Avril 2006 11:05, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : > > I'm assuming libc6 depends on libc-bin and libc-bin depends on libc6 > > here. The former is needed to always pull in libc-bin on upgrades and > > the later is needed t

Re: glibc_2.3.6-6_i386.changes REJECTED

2006-04-11 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le Mar 11 Avril 2006 11:05, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : > Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Le Lun 10 Avril 2006 19:41, Aurelien Jarno a écrit : > >> Anthony Towns a écrit : > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > This is a reject of the new -bin packages (both of them). > >> > > >> > The issues

Re: errors occured when compiling glibc

2006-04-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Forwarding to debian-glibc. Please don't CC debian-devel on replies. MfG Goswin "Luo Yong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here's some problem occured when I cross compiling glibc. > > == > In file included from ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/libc-lowlevellock.c:21: > ../nptl/sysdeps/uni

Re: glibc_2.3.6-6_i386.changes REJECTED

2006-04-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Le Lun 10 Avril 2006 19:41, Aurelien Jarno a écrit : >> Anthony Towns a écrit : >> > Hi, >> > >> > This is a reject of the new -bin packages (both of them). >> > >> > The issues with the -bin package are that it may cause upgrade >> > problems, both in

Re: Bug#361418: [Proposal] new Debian menu structure

2006-04-11 Thread Linas Žvirblis
Eduard Bloch wrote: > Yep. WRT you said above, what abot renaming "WindowManagers/Modules" to > "$wm Modules" (one level above WM starters and indicating which > "modules" are meant by that). One more thing to consider is that if we will have to to move/rename modules in the future (current situa